Columnist responds to criticisms

The complaints, explanations and rebuttals I have received from alumni and students at the University of Dayton is a classic example of white privilege and the cultural appropriation that is executed from that privilege.

No living white person is at all responsible for slavery. But ALL living whites reap the benefits, just like all living blacks wear its scars. Most of you feel as if you have the privilege to take a dehumanizing, shameful word such as “ghetto” and transform it into a word that is accepting and inclusive.

Ghetto is a ghetto. It does not matter what alumni class made it up when. It does not matter what the houses were. It matters what it is now. Stop saying you live in a “trap house,” a “crack house” or “the hood.” It is not cute. Because if you did, you would be in jail, dead or a combination of the two.

I do apologize for not speaking up sooner. I should have wrote this article a long time ago, but before I leave I gotta let y’all know: This whole “ghetto,” “Trap Queen,” “Nae Nae” thing has to stop. This cultural appropriation has to stop.